What is warchalking about?
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>It may spell an end to warchalking.
I thought that warchalking existed more for those who are offering wireless access to alert others than revealing the open status of another's network. Any warchalkers want to chime in? Are you guys mostly ID'ing your own WAPs or the WAPs of others?
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Funny, the only video I've seen of the segway involves a guy falling off it (it was linked to boingboing.net a while ago). You can cram it all you like with gyroscopes and the best software to predict what a person might be doing and how to correct it and still get crummy results. This is one of the many reasons the segway will be an industrial only toy. Its far cheaper to use a working inner-ear mixed with simple but effective technology like a bicycle or a scooter to fulfill urban transportation needs. I wouldn't be surprised to see if the learning curve to ride the segway properly is somewhere around learning to ride a bike properly.
The segway is a great gee-whiz high-tech toy, but that doesn't necessarily make it practical for more than a couple different applications and it certainly isn't the fix-all DeKa would have the public believe.
No, I'm not kidding. If you think the average network in corporate America is more secure than a well administered NT/2k based network then I have to disagree based on my experience.
Of course it doesn't help matters that most of c.America is NT/2k based, but its fairly obvious that a poorly administered network determines how secure it is regardless of platform.
No they dont... but unfortunately.. most people still dont know there is something else out there.
I don't know how true that is. I'm a student (again), but I still do consulting on the side and in the small to medium size business arena, at least in my experience, people just love the MS solution. They're usually already familiar with Outlook and Office and are ready to pay for a few Dells and an 2K server or two running Exchange and MS SQL.
Frankly, the last thing I'm going to do is try to push an OSS solution for a small LAN when their primary needs are Outlook-like shared calendering, Office, and a few of the gazillion MS-only apps out there.
Some of these people are pretty shrewd. They might have both an Apple and a PC at home. They might even know what linux is, but they also know their needs, prefer MS products, and don't mind paying. If a client wants MS and wants to pay for it, its fine and with the proper administration (proper permissions, quick to patch, antivirus scanning and attachment blocking on the email server, etc) it can be just as secure as anything else in corporate America.
The question that geeks are expecting business to ask is, "How cheaply can we do this by using a no-name product?" Lets face it, linux has no brand, its more of a movement than a product. This is like assuming that cab companies are going to migrate over to the Kia Spectra (its a nice car at a nice price with a nice warranty) to save money. They're going to stick with the Caprice or Crown Victoria workhorse even if it costs a premium and if they continue to believe its worth it. Considering all their mechanics know the Crown Vic and the Caprice inside out and their drivers and customers expect a large American car, I doubt Kia will be getting any cab contracts anytime soon.
Of course things change drastically when you're dealing with larger medium sized companies and large companies, but most of these companies start small or small-ish and if BillG is already in the door they will be very skittish about kicking him out too soon.
Don't get me wrong, I would love it if a client wanted to do something from the ground up as cheap as possible and using OSS. A Moz/OpenOffice solution running on Mandrake would really be nice, but no one wants to jump into that pool unless they have to. In the meantime, unless price becomes a major factor then business will continue using MS. Its no wonder that Linux has more potential for market penetration in academia, the public sector, and in embedded devices. MS has the office environment locked and many end-users wouldn't have it any other way.
nt. Male characters tend to be more gruff and muscular, implying physical capability, intimidation, and power.
Muscular, being fit, etc are also sexually appealing and calling them just intimidating or powerful reveals your bias. Overweight and out of shape guys don't do so well in the singles scene compared the guy who works out as the gym twice a week. Its a no-brainer. Many women are attracted to physical looks and its more or less hardcoded into our DNA and has been reflected in our art since day one.
Fitness and power are sexy, but like anything they can be abused, but that doesn't necessarily support your thesis that men in games are intimidating to women and other men.
Fifty years ago it only took one person working full-time to pay for the expenses of a whole family. Now we have both parents putting in 40+ hour work weeks to achieve the same purchasing power.
Mimimum wage was actually closer to a living wage back then too, but powerful and well-connected lobbies (McLobby) keep it artificially low.
Getting deeply into debt in your 20s for the sake of an education or because of a sudden medical emergency is par for the course. Its no wonder that credit card companies and payday loan companies are doing so well. People need fast credit ASAP to stay afloat.
Hopefully, my generation will address these problems instead of shoving them under the rug when they begin to consolidate more power in the next couple decades as the boomers drift off to retirement.
I just finished playing with mine and so far it feels like great device. Be forewarned this will not play well with anyone who is into open formats. Everything is proprietary and email, calender data, etc is mirrored on their servers not on your PC. There is no sync to Outlook, Notes, etc options (yet? theres a USB cable for restores and future applications).
The interface is very, very nice. Embedded people take note - this is how its done. Web surfing is the disaster you'd expect it to be. Think Lynx with grayscale jpgs. AIM works very nicely on here. My free camera is defective, all I'm getting is black. The email client is nice, but I still haven't figured out how often it will check external POP email boxes. Someone estimated 15 minutes or so and that's really unacceptable. The tmail.com account check is dynamic, so I'll probably just forward mail there and be done with it.
Phone works fine. I don't get the complaints about talking with the screen extended. The screen hides behind your hand so it more or less looks like you're holding a normal phone (not to mention all cell phones look silly anyway) at least to us lefties.
Everyone is getting speaker pops/shorts. Not cool. How did these get off the production line like this?
I'm sure a firmware upgrade or two will fix the initial problems us early adopters are getting. There's so much room for potential here, its going to be interesting to see where this goes. I'm stuck with it for 12 months. Here's to a ssh client or PDA like synching.
Do a google search for these keywords: see clearly method
That will bring up lots of info, starting with a company which sells a whole videotape, book, cassette, ec package which you may or may not want or need.
Also you might want to check out CRT and Ortho-K - contacts you sleep in which reshape your eyes. http://www.allaboutvision.com/contacts/orthok.ht m
Considering the risks I would not recommend surgery to anyone who needs to read small text for their livelihood. If your glasses are getting you down, get some cooler frames and leave the lasers to those who have a lifestyle which can handle the side-effects or a botched job, e.g. those who don't spend hours coding, hours on end reading, etc.
It's just that this Dragon CPU doesn't sound like it is being designed as something competative to be placed on the global market but to be only internally used in China.
Reread the article. The not so great translation seems to say that China wants to make 17 billion of these in the next few years. That means exports, this ain't gonna be a China-only chip and it would be crazy to think it would. China wants your business.
Agreed, its no secret that people growing up in the information age are pretty cynical when it comes to technological advances. If it isn't cheap and effective and available with overnight shipping or instantly downloadable then it might as well not exist for them. I know this is a good sized generalization, but taking things for granted is the status quo. I'm still blown away by a lot of 'ordinary' information age marvels like globally-accesible self-publishing and cheap broadband.
Not to mention any new tech needs early adoptors to pay through the nose so the rest of us can pay next to nothing and take it for granted later. These millionares could buy a really nice yacht or another home with this kind of cash. I think their investments are very much justified. Genome decoding isn't crackpot science, its advancing and this information will simply be priceless once the science matures in the near future.
On a lesser scale I was an admin at a small company. After a few closed door meetings (without me) about how I really don't do anything they laid me off. This company relies on its internet connection just as much if not more than most small business. After dealing with the Northpoint bankrupcy I made an effort to provide an ISDN backup in case of DSL problems (no they werent paying for a T1). Its a simple set-up, if the DSL fails then you tell the netopia to use the ISDN. A couple weeks after I left the DSL card in the netopia died and according to someone there 'we had no internet for four days.'
Heh, serves em right. Whatever genius outsourcers theyre using didn't notice the obvious ISDN connection on the back of the router. Not to mention it was documented and I certainly wasn't the only one to know about it. Perhaps the netopia interface was too confusing?
Yep, that's him. A couple years ago there was a short documentary about him on HBO or perhaps on one of the learning channels. Frankly, he came off as a self-important Hollywood prick. At first I thought that angle was there as some kind of post-modern joke, but I never saw a punchline coming and have to assume he's sincere in his self-importance.
Then again how would you feel about yourself if you were some nobody voice actor one day who suddenly found himself the voice of ALL big-name trailers, rides in a custom limo all day, and makes an incredible amount of money. Not to excuse the celebrity mindset, but this guy is in heavy demand. I don't know about the rest of you, but he more or less breaks any suspension of disbelief I might have aquired during the trailer because he's just too damn ubiqitious. Perhaps the Comedian trailer will open some eyes and ears to how cheap the over-the-top dramatic gimmick really is.
If only we all could turn up the bass knob in our voice box.
There should be a formal study of trailers. When I saw the trailer for the Count of Monte Cristo and heard, "COUNT ON.... ACTION!!!" I laughed my ass off. Only the person I was with and myself enjoyed that, everyone else remained strangly quiet. If that wasn't an intersection of the real world and the Simpsons world (or some other parody heavy analogy) then I don't know what is.
es, more so than Star Trek and B5, and way past Star Wars.
Not to geek out here but:
I always thought of Star Trek being much more fantastical and silly than the Star Wars movies. Star Wars had interesting politics (revolutionaries vs an empire), no teleportation beams, gravity/flight dynamics, death, drama, etc.
Star Trek always came off, at least to me, as more Joe Sixpack friendly with its sexy aliens, Kirk's unstoppable libido, uninspired sets, and lackluster storylines. Even TNG has a lot of this plus they made the set look more like a corporate office than a military ship.
Perhaps the poster take issue with the religious and paranormal aspects of the force. I'm as non-religious (some would call me anti-religious) as they come, but as an element in the film the force works perfectly and the films would be worse off without it. ST could write off the vulcan mind-meld thing and no one really care or probably even notice.
Sorkin: Of course it doesn't make sense to regulate a relatively borderless environment with laws that vary according to geography.
The internet has borders and vulnerable spots - they're called ISPs. A federal law fining open relays would be a good start. ISPs can attach the the fine, and even a profit attached to it, onto their TOS when they or the government catch Joe DSL or Generic Company T1 with an open relay. The ISPs would have more of an incentive to attack the problem of open relays. Fining the ISP per email sent by a registered user running their own SMTP engine or the ISPs mail server would take care of those paying for one months service to send out gigabytes of mail.
A simple 'ADV' in the subject line for filters to find would take care of the first amendment issue. Advertising is not protected speech, its been ruled again and again that it can be legally limited.
That would more or less take care of American spam. The anti-legislation crowd can cry 'but they will go overseas' all day long, but certainly cannot prove that they will ALL go overseas. Not to mention if this works, other internet heavy countries might take notice and try the same thing. Less spam is better than more spam, especially now that dummy-proof spam software and mailing lists can freely be downloaded via kazaa.
The downside is that your ISP would need your credit card info if you were to get an email account with them in case they do get fined, but chances are they have that information already and is it such a terrible price to pay for spam free mail?
Imagine ISPs encouraging stronger passwords, email limits(500 emails a month - want more then ask and tell why), shutting down open relays, and blocking port 25 to customers not authorized to run a mail server. Horrible I know.
Great point. This quote particularly sounded like the classic 'lets expand our listener base' sell-out excuse:
We've had great success, however, on our websites selling CDs and pulling in new fans, and would like to push online music marketing further.
Is it so hard to accept that you have found your niche and in a market with thousands of indie bands that your band is extremely successful. It really sounds like you want to be on top-40. Find yourself a savvy mainstream producer and run with it. Most bands, even very talented ones, don't get your level of success.
The problem is that they used a close up of face to pixelate. There so much detail and so much psychological baggage associated with faces that is pretty poor example. I would think more distant objects would be easier to distinguish especially with the proper video processing.
These are not really replacements for the eye, just aides like a walking stick or a seeing eye-dog. Even at 100x100 the patient would still be legally blind and have no real peripheral vision.
The first time I played EQ I said 'this is sojourn' and quit a month later. Both Sojourn and EQ were/are major timewasters. Someone once described EQ as 'lots of nothing to run through' and I have to agree.
After my err, sojourn at sojourn I went back to Sneezy/Grimhaven which is just as modified as sojourn and has much better gameplay. Its still running today.
One of the more interesting things going on right now is how free access to information makes the entertainment monopolies a bit obsolete.
What might be going on here is the death of the celebrity star system. The RIAA is having trouble making people believe they need the latest and greatest from Britney Spears, et al. Is this just a sign of her ending 15 minutes of fame or perhaps something more? Non-mainstream music is very accessible today, especially compared to when I was in High School living in the suburbs ten years ago. Is it any surprise that music fans are dropping mainstream interests for something better and cheaper? Hello 10 dollar albums and 8 dollar concerts.
I'm seeing small signs pointing in this direction everywhere in the media. Failed advertising campaigns which probably would have worked 15 years ago. Shrewd consumers telling Madison Avenue to fuck off, just check out the reaction to Maxim's hair dye for men. Socially conscious people voting with their dollars.
As publishing and information becomes cheaper and freerer the old figureheard/celebrity system will become obsolete. Its going to be hard to care about a Gwenyth Paltrow interview on TV when people begin to see her as just an actor and not a cultural figure.
A true change of perspective would have us questioning why we would even want to send humands anywhere when advanced machines are cheaper and more efficient. Fulfilling the Star Trek fantasy is a little like the ancient myths of strongmen like Hercules who could do almost anything. Now we have industrial equipment to do construction and demolition work. A human operator/crew may be as old fashioned as supernatural strongmen.
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>It may spell an end to warchalking.
I thought that warchalking existed more for those who are offering wireless access to alert others than revealing the open status of another's network. Any warchalkers want to chime in? Are you guys mostly ID'ing your own WAPs or the WAPs of others?
Funny, the only video I've seen of the segway involves a guy falling off it (it was linked to boingboing.net a while ago). You can cram it all you like with gyroscopes and the best software to predict what a person might be doing and how to correct it and still get crummy results. This is one of the many reasons the segway will be an industrial only toy. Its far cheaper to use a working inner-ear mixed with simple but effective technology like a bicycle or a scooter to fulfill urban transportation needs. I wouldn't be surprised to see if the learning curve to ride the segway properly is somewhere around learning to ride a bike properly.
The segway is a great gee-whiz high-tech toy, but that doesn't necessarily make it practical for more than a couple different applications and it certainly isn't the fix-all DeKa would have the public believe.
No, I'm not kidding. If you think the average network in corporate America is more secure than a well administered NT/2k based network then I have to disagree based on my experience.
Of course it doesn't help matters that most of c.America is NT/2k based, but its fairly obvious that a poorly administered network determines how secure it is regardless of platform.
No they dont... but unfortunately.. most people still dont know there is something else out there.
I don't know how true that is. I'm a student (again), but I still do consulting on the side and in the small to medium size business arena, at least in my experience, people just love the MS solution. They're usually already familiar with Outlook and Office and are ready to pay for a few Dells and an 2K server or two running Exchange and MS SQL.
Frankly, the last thing I'm going to do is try to push an OSS solution for a small LAN when their primary needs are Outlook-like shared calendering, Office, and a few of the gazillion MS-only apps out there.
Some of these people are pretty shrewd. They might have both an Apple and a PC at home. They might even know what linux is, but they also know their needs, prefer MS products, and don't mind paying. If a client wants MS and wants to pay for it, its fine and with the proper administration (proper permissions, quick to patch, antivirus scanning and attachment blocking on the email server, etc) it can be just as secure as anything else in corporate America.
The question that geeks are expecting business to ask is, "How cheaply can we do this by using a no-name product?" Lets face it, linux has no brand, its more of a movement than a product. This is like assuming that cab companies are going to migrate over to the Kia Spectra (its a nice car at a nice price with a nice warranty) to save money. They're going to stick with the Caprice or Crown Victoria workhorse even if it costs a premium and if they continue to believe its worth it. Considering all their mechanics know the Crown Vic and the Caprice inside out and their drivers and customers expect a large American car, I doubt Kia will be getting any cab contracts anytime soon.
Of course things change drastically when you're dealing with larger medium sized companies and large companies, but most of these companies start small or small-ish and if BillG is already in the door they will be very skittish about kicking him out too soon.
Don't get me wrong, I would love it if a client wanted to do something from the ground up as cheap as possible and using OSS. A Moz/OpenOffice solution running on Mandrake would really be nice, but no one wants to jump into that pool unless they have to. In the meantime, unless price becomes a major factor then business will continue using MS. Its no wonder that Linux has more potential for market penetration in academia, the public sector, and in embedded devices. MS has the office environment locked and many end-users wouldn't have it any other way.
nt. Male characters tend to be more gruff and muscular, implying physical capability, intimidation, and power.
Muscular, being fit, etc are also sexually appealing and calling them just intimidating or powerful reveals your bias. Overweight and out of shape guys don't do so well in the singles scene compared the guy who works out as the gym twice a week. Its a no-brainer. Many women are attracted to physical looks and its more or less hardcoded into our DNA and has been reflected in our art since day one.
Fitness and power are sexy, but like anything they can be abused, but that doesn't necessarily support your thesis that men in games are intimidating to women and other men.
Fifty years ago it only took one person working full-time to pay for the expenses of a whole family. Now we have both parents putting in 40+ hour work weeks to achieve the same purchasing power.
Mimimum wage was actually closer to a living wage back then too, but powerful and well-connected lobbies (McLobby) keep it artificially low.
Getting deeply into debt in your 20s for the sake of an education or because of a sudden medical emergency is par for the course. Its no wonder that credit card companies and payday loan companies are doing so well. People need fast credit ASAP to stay afloat.
Hopefully, my generation will address these problems instead of shoving them under the rug when they begin to consolidate more power in the next couple decades as the boomers drift off to retirement.
Yes, we're all very surprised.
I just finished playing with mine and so far it feels like great device. Be forewarned this will not play well with anyone who is into open formats. Everything is proprietary and email, calender data, etc is mirrored on their servers not on your PC. There is no sync to Outlook, Notes, etc options (yet? theres a USB cable for restores and future applications).
The interface is very, very nice. Embedded people take note - this is how its done. Web surfing is the disaster you'd expect it to be. Think Lynx with grayscale jpgs. AIM works very nicely on here. My free camera is defective, all I'm getting is black. The email client is nice, but I still haven't figured out how often it will check external POP email boxes. Someone estimated 15 minutes or so and that's really unacceptable. The tmail.com account check is dynamic, so I'll probably just forward mail there and be done with it.
Phone works fine. I don't get the complaints about talking with the screen extended. The screen hides behind your hand so it more or less looks like you're holding a normal phone (not to mention all cell phones look silly anyway) at least to us lefties.
Everyone is getting speaker pops/shorts. Not cool. How did these get off the production line like this?
I'm sure a firmware upgrade or two will fix the initial problems us early adopters are getting. There's so much room for potential here, its going to be interesting to see where this goes. I'm stuck with it for 12 months. Here's to a ssh client or PDA like synching.
Do a google search for these keywords: see clearly method
t m
That will bring up lots of info, starting with a company which sells a whole videotape, book, cassette, ec package which you may or may not want or need.
Also you might want to check out CRT and Ortho-K - contacts you sleep in which reshape your eyes.
http://www.allaboutvision.com/contacts/orthok.h
Considering the risks I would not recommend surgery to anyone who needs to read small text for their livelihood. If your glasses are getting you down, get some cooler frames and leave the lasers to those who have a lifestyle which can handle the side-effects or a botched job, e.g. those who don't spend hours coding, hours on end reading, etc.
It's just that this Dragon CPU doesn't sound like it is being designed as something competative to be placed on the global market but to be only internally used in China.
Reread the article. The not so great translation seems to say that China wants to make 17 billion of these in the next few years. That means exports, this ain't gonna be a China-only chip and it would be crazy to think it would. China wants your business.
Agreed, its no secret that people growing up in the information age are pretty cynical when it comes to technological advances. If it isn't cheap and effective and available with overnight shipping or instantly downloadable then it might as well not exist for them. I know this is a good sized generalization, but taking things for granted is the status quo. I'm still blown away by a lot of 'ordinary' information age marvels like globally-accesible self-publishing and cheap broadband.
Not to mention any new tech needs early adoptors to pay through the nose so the rest of us can pay next to nothing and take it for granted later. These millionares could buy a really nice yacht or another home with this kind of cash. I think their investments are very much justified. Genome decoding isn't crackpot science, its advancing and this information will simply be priceless once the science matures in the near future.
On a lesser scale I was an admin at a small company. After a few closed door meetings (without me) about how I really don't do anything they laid me off. This company relies on its internet connection just as much if not more than most small business. After dealing with the Northpoint bankrupcy I made an effort to provide an ISDN backup in case of DSL problems (no they werent paying for a T1). Its a simple set-up, if the DSL fails then you tell the netopia to use the ISDN. A couple weeks after I left the DSL card in the netopia died and according to someone there 'we had no internet for four days.'
Heh, serves em right. Whatever genius outsourcers theyre using didn't notice the obvious ISDN connection on the back of the router. Not to mention it was documented and I certainly wasn't the only one to know about it. Perhaps the netopia interface was too confusing?
I felt a disturbance in the net, like 100,000 voices all screamed, "DID U S33 FIREFLY?!?!" at once.
Yep, that's him. A couple years ago there was a short documentary about him on HBO or perhaps on one of the learning channels. Frankly, he came off as a self-important Hollywood prick. At first I thought that angle was there as some kind of post-modern joke, but I never saw a punchline coming and have to assume he's sincere in his self-importance.
Then again how would you feel about yourself if you were some nobody voice actor one day who suddenly found himself the voice of ALL big-name trailers, rides in a custom limo all day, and makes an incredible amount of money. Not to excuse the celebrity mindset, but this guy is in heavy demand. I don't know about the rest of you, but he more or less breaks any suspension of disbelief I might have aquired during the trailer because he's just too damn ubiqitious. Perhaps the Comedian trailer will open some eyes and ears to how cheap the over-the-top dramatic gimmick really is.
If only we all could turn up the bass knob in our voice box.
There should be a formal study of trailers. When I saw the trailer for the Count of Monte Cristo and heard, "COUNT ON.... ACTION!!!" I laughed my ass off. Only the person I was with and myself enjoyed that, everyone else remained strangly quiet. If that wasn't an intersection of the real world and the Simpsons world (or some other parody heavy analogy) then I don't know what is.
es, more so than Star Trek and B5, and way past Star Wars.
Not to geek out here but:
I always thought of Star Trek being much more fantastical and silly than the Star Wars movies. Star Wars had interesting politics (revolutionaries vs an empire), no teleportation beams, gravity/flight dynamics, death, drama, etc.
Star Trek always came off, at least to me, as more Joe Sixpack friendly with its sexy aliens, Kirk's unstoppable libido, uninspired sets, and lackluster storylines. Even TNG has a lot of this plus they made the set look more like a corporate office than a military ship.
Perhaps the poster take issue with the religious and paranormal aspects of the force. I'm as non-religious (some would call me anti-religious) as they come, but as an element in the film the force works perfectly and the films would be worse off without it. ST could write off the vulcan mind-meld thing and no one really care or probably even notice.
Sorkin: Of course it doesn't make sense to regulate a relatively borderless environment with laws that vary according to geography.
The internet has borders and vulnerable spots - they're called ISPs. A federal law fining open relays would be a good start. ISPs can attach the the fine, and even a profit attached to it, onto their TOS when they or the government catch Joe DSL or Generic Company T1 with an open relay. The ISPs would have more of an incentive to attack the problem of open relays. Fining the ISP per email sent by a registered user running their own SMTP engine or the ISPs mail server would take care of those paying for one months service to send out gigabytes of mail.
A simple 'ADV' in the subject line for filters to find would take care of the first amendment issue. Advertising is not protected speech, its been ruled again and again that it can be legally limited.
That would more or less take care of American spam. The anti-legislation crowd can cry 'but they will go overseas' all day long, but certainly cannot prove that they will ALL go overseas. Not to mention if this works, other internet heavy countries might take notice and try the same thing. Less spam is better than more spam, especially now that dummy-proof spam software and mailing lists can freely be downloaded via kazaa.
The downside is that your ISP would need your credit card info if you were to get an email account with them in case they do get fined, but chances are they have that information already and is it such a terrible price to pay for spam free mail?
Imagine ISPs encouraging stronger passwords, email limits(500 emails a month - want more then ask and tell why), shutting down open relays, and blocking port 25 to customers not authorized to run a mail server. Horrible I know.
"Email is most anonymous and potentially anonymous, and hence has the least chance of being taken seriously"
Now imagine signed and encrypted email.
"On the otherhand, does it really matter if people are constituents or not? "
Yes, my representative represents me and the people in my district. Not some pro-lifers from Georgia who can write an email script.
Is it so hard to accept that you have found your niche and in a market with thousands of indie bands that your band is extremely successful. It really sounds like you want to be on top-40. Find yourself a savvy mainstream producer and run with it. Most bands, even very talented ones, don't get your level of success.
Very interesting analysis of that question.
Good job. I was going to do the same thing, well if I was able to download it.
The problem is that they used a close up of face to pixelate. There so much detail and so much psychological baggage associated with faces that is pretty poor example. I would think more distant objects would be easier to distinguish especially with the proper video processing.
These are not really replacements for the eye, just aides like a walking stick or a seeing eye-dog. Even at 100x100 the patient would still be legally blind and have no real peripheral vision.
The first time I played EQ I said 'this is sojourn' and quit a month later. Both Sojourn and EQ were/are major timewasters. Someone once described EQ as 'lots of nothing to run through' and I have to agree.
After my err, sojourn at sojourn I went back to Sneezy/Grimhaven which is just as modified as sojourn and has much better gameplay. Its still running today.
One of the more interesting things going on right now is how free access to information makes the entertainment monopolies a bit obsolete.
What might be going on here is the death of the celebrity star system. The RIAA is having trouble making people believe they need the latest and greatest from Britney Spears, et al. Is this just a sign of her ending 15 minutes of fame or perhaps something more? Non-mainstream music is very accessible today, especially compared to when I was in High School living in the suburbs ten years ago. Is it any surprise that music fans are dropping mainstream interests for something better and cheaper? Hello 10 dollar albums and 8 dollar concerts.
I'm seeing small signs pointing in this direction everywhere in the media. Failed advertising campaigns which probably would have worked 15 years ago. Shrewd consumers telling Madison Avenue to fuck off, just check out the reaction to Maxim's hair dye for men. Socially conscious people voting with their dollars.
As publishing and information becomes cheaper and freerer the old figureheard/celebrity system will become obsolete. Its going to be hard to care about a Gwenyth Paltrow interview on TV when people begin to see her as just an actor and not a cultural figure.
Why aren't museums jumping at this? Perhaps he lacks the marketing fu it takes to unload something like this.
A true change of perspective would have us questioning why we would even want to send humands anywhere when advanced machines are cheaper and more efficient. Fulfilling the Star Trek fantasy is a little like the ancient myths of strongmen like Hercules who could do almost anything. Now we have industrial equipment to do construction and demolition work. A human operator/crew may be as old fashioned as supernatural strongmen.